What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
Haste is of the Devil.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
My reverence has always been for holy simplicity rather than wordy vulgarity.
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
Having experienced the vexation of marriage, why should she be like the dog who returns to his own vomit,
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
Quick enough, if good enough.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Prayer is a groan.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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